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How Ipv6 trended on Hacker News

Ipv6 was mentioned 30,979 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2025 with 882 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Ipv6 appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Ipv6

1. 1.The world in which IPv6 was a good design 677 points · 191 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute 633 points · 150 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) 589 points · 238 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 555 points · 374 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6 503 points · 187 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network 432 points · 102 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers 371 points · 252 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses 337 points · 123 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem 323 points · 196 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.40% of Google users now connect via IPv6 316 points · 346 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.IPv6 Adoption 315 points · 289 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment 310 points · 280 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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